63 stories by "Shari Barrett"
HOPE IS A WAKING DREAM " Aristotle Close-up magic by master illusionist, storyteller and seeming mind-reader Helder Guimarães is mesmerizing and dazzling in The Hope Theory, an 80-minu…
THE DECONSTRUCTED PLAY'S THE THING William Shakespeare's Hamlet recounts the story of the ghost of Denmark's murdered king who wants his son, Prince Hamlet, to kill his uncle Claudius, the m…
A MONSTER MASH Like most boomers, I was raised watching black-and-white horror movies. Both frightening and amusing, those giant ants, grasshoppers and spiders attacking some innocent town w…
A ROYAL KING From the moment Irish actor extraordinaire Pat Kinevane appears out of the darkness as if in a dream, his lithe body moving as seductively as a snake into a sexy Argentine Tango…
I FEEL YA, OPHELIA Acclaimed playwright, director, and actor Stefan Marks has outdone himself taking on three roles in his World Premiere play Ophelia, now at the Odyssey Theatre through May…
WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTION Taking place within the confines of a witness room in Manhattan Criminal Court, four obdurate NYPD officers who have "done all this before and know what to say"…
A VIEW TO GREAT THEATER Theatre Palisades has a hit on their boards with a true-to-life production of Arthur Miller's landmark drama from 1955, A View from the Bridge, sharply directed by Ca…
FOR THEATERGOERS DESIRING A COAT OF LOVE, THIS SHOW IS BESPOKEN FOR Sometimes friends or even co-workers can become more like family than your relatives. Such is the case in Wolf Mankowitz's…
A FASCINATING DIVERSE UPDATE TO CHEKHOV'S THREE SISTERS In 1900, Anton Chekhov wrote the play Three Sisters, centering around siblings both very similar and remarkably different who grew up …
YOU MIGHT WANNA MISS THIS TRAIN Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 psychological film noir thriller Strangers on a Train, which he directed and produced to mixed reviews, was based on the 1950 novel…
ANN HEARN TOBOLOWSKY RAISES THE TEMPERATURE ON LOS ANGELES THEATER I have been following the work of extraordinary director Ann Hearn Tobolowsky at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills for quite some…
THE JOINT IS, INDEED, JUMPIN' The musical revue Ain't Misbehavin' is a sizzling celebration of Fats Waller's music " songs that he made famous in a career that ranged from uptown clubs to do…
Playwright, fiction writer, director, and immersive experience creator for weird, fantastical artistic ventures Chelsea Sutton has always had a very unique sense of humor. Hearing of her …
